[NYer]

Ping!

[rmlew]

I appreciate Dolan standing up not only for Catholic institutions but also for the trampled rights of business owners.

[narses]

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[CASchack]

Obama has met his match in Archbishop Dolan. Here is a man who won’t be steamrolled.

[Jeff Head]

"What Obama offered was next to nothing."

Amen Cardinal-designate Dolan, amen. Stick to your guns, we all have your back.

[frogjerk]

the only thing that I disagree with in this article is this:

Cardinal-designate Dolan said he emailed Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who heads the Catholic Health Association, on Feb. 10 to tell her that he was "disappointed that she had acted unilaterally, not in concert with the bishops."

I think he needs to be a little more stern than "disappointed". I get disappointed when I miss a green light. When someone undermines my authority I get angry.

[the invisib1e hand]

"We bishops are pastors, we're not politicians, and you can't compromise on principle," said Cardinal-designate Dolan

oy. does he really not see what a politician he is?

I'm desperately looking for a reason to get over my visceral mistrust of this man, and he's not helping too much.

[the invisib1e hand]

come on you freaking headline junkies. where was the archbishop when the matter was being debated? supporting it.

[A.A. Cunningham]

[Boogieman]

“My brother-in-law, who’s a committed Catholic, runs a butcher shop. Is he going to have to pay for services that he as a convinced Catholic considers to be morally objectionable?” he asked.

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This is the most important argument, I think. The Constitution doesn’t grant freedom of religion to just priest, rabbis, ministers, etc. The government doesn’t have a right to impose this mandate on any single individual American who objects on grounds of religious conscience, any more than it can force a conscientious objector into combat duty. We need to shift the debate from simply Obama fighting with churches to Obama gutting the core of religious freedom for every single citizen of the nation.

[RobbyS]

Keehan didn’t act unilaterally: she acted in concert with her friends in the Obama administration.